Comment Re:A question to Gord Bowman and Corel (Score 1) 184
An open source license is an idea that I can't speak to (I have no authority to make those sorts of decisions), but your comments are well noted.
I CAN speak about performance and native implementation though. Performance would indeed be increased if we natively implemented dSVG, but we chose to instead abide by the standards and ensure that dSVG worked on other SVG viewers. As I said earlier in the week on the svg-developers newsgroup on Yahoo, Corel's mantra is standards, standards, standards. Interoperability, interoperability, interoperability. The Corel SVG Viewer abides by the SVG spec exactly. There are no extensions. The only non-standard thing we implemented are some of the SVGWindow object methods (like getURL(), parseXML(), alert(), etc) which are really needed, already in other SVG viewers and will be in the SVG 1.2 spec anyway.
Natively implementing dSVG would likely be praised by some, but greatly criticized by others. That said, I am certain that the performance of dSVG can be improved in its script implementation by some re-architecting of some key concepts. You will definitely see big improvements in the future.
I CAN speak about performance and native implementation though. Performance would indeed be increased if we natively implemented dSVG, but we chose to instead abide by the standards and ensure that dSVG worked on other SVG viewers. As I said earlier in the week on the svg-developers newsgroup on Yahoo, Corel's mantra is standards, standards, standards. Interoperability, interoperability, interoperability. The Corel SVG Viewer abides by the SVG spec exactly. There are no extensions. The only non-standard thing we implemented are some of the SVGWindow object methods (like getURL(), parseXML(), alert(), etc) which are really needed, already in other SVG viewers and will be in the SVG 1.2 spec anyway.
Natively implementing dSVG would likely be praised by some, but greatly criticized by others. That said, I am certain that the performance of dSVG can be improved in its script implementation by some re-architecting of some key concepts. You will definitely see big improvements in the future.
